By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.